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The font color is too faint - hard to read. Also, the ads on the sidebar are bigger. Not a fan of that.

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  • gaby villalobos commented  ·   ·  Report

    USE TO HELP THIRD AGE PEOPLE ARIAL 14 AND/OR 12 LIKE BEFORE BUT THIS TYPE YOU ARE USING IS SO SMALL THAT FINALLY IT IS DAMAGING THE EYES FOR PEOPLE USING
    GLASSES. OR CREATE ALTERNATIVE FOR PEOPLE WHO
    LIKE WRITING TEXTS WITH A LARGE TYPE OF LETTER.

  • Frank Laudahn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Go back to a readable font. Every byte I type updates the screen and the whole text is flickering ! You used to have /neo/b/ Where is it ?
    All the colorful icons distract from the text. BASIC mail really should be basic and no fancy attributes. I agree to all the others saying bring back the old version because of all the flaws !!

  • Liz Marr commented  ·   ·  Report

    My message system is set up for the old style. My names are too wide for any of your new styles. The pop down lists sort the names entirely different on the new mail then the old mail (where did you guys learn how to alphabetize anyway?) Now I can't see my folder names to sort the messages into them. There is no way to widen the column that shows the folders. Please give back the old way. My hands and eyes hurt so bad trying to organize this mess.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm getting old. My eyes are failing. This new layout is really hard to see! I know you've already wasted money paying someone to fix what wasn't broke but the new version is just POOR UI/UX for people with visual issues. Are you saying you don't care about accessibility?

  • Peter Lester commented  ·   ·  Report

    BRING BACK THE OLD ONE. THIS ONE IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK WITH. UNABLE TO CHANGE FONTS OR DO MOST OTHER STUFF. GET RID OF THE MORON WHO CHANGED IT.

  • Mark Penrice commented  ·   ·  Report

    Also, there's an official reply on the list that says you can easily change back using the settings menu. I've just been there. There is no such option. Why, on top of everything else, do you feel the need to lie to us?

  • Mark Penrice commented  ·   ·  Report

    This keeps coming round regular as clockwork every few years. The original theme from the 90s works perfectly well as a webmail interface, and it's what we know and are familiar with. It's surely just a snippet of CSS. I don't understand why you're so keen on trying to convince us to use the new one (which is to my eye harder to read and generally too busy and confusing, and I bet it plays **** with accessibility software), and, when said heavy handed encouragement fails, enforcing the change anyway. I resisted it on my (less frequently used, and so not as well guarded) secondary account until it got forced a few years ago. As I repeatedly denied the change on my primary one and made direct complaint about it to customer services, I thought the primary was safe. Turns out that was just a diversionary tactic to lull us into a false sense of security so you could just randomly change it later on when we're least expecting it.

    Google seems to understand the value of a simple, clean interface. It's not perfect either, but GMail's default theme is now far more Yahoo than actual Y!Mail.

    It seems like change for change's sake. I've had this primary account for two decades as of this year. All that time the classic theme seemed to work just fine. Why, suddenly, in mid-2019, is it no longer an option?

    And yes, I know many more people are saying the same thing, but I think it shows the full strength of feeling if I both vote for all of those, and add my own supporting suggestion in kind. Right now all 20 "ideas" on the first page of results say the same thing, and I have a feeling that the situation is duplicated on most of the following pages (of which there seems to be at least 100...)

    I just don't get it. What advantage is it to you to force this change, which serves only to deeply annoy (and, it seems, compromise the usability) for a good slice of your userbase? Is it something in Yahoo's corporate philosophy to **** people off on purpose? EG, shutting down your original and quite useful directory based search function in favour of Microsoft's hopeless engine... buying up and then soon shutting down Geocities (in favour of a much less useful, and evidently far less used, heavily overpriced Small Business webhosting)... buying up and then messing up Flickr (...to try and make any but the most resolutely casual users switch to paid accounts, even though services like Photobucket and Imgur exist)... and so on, and so on, and so on. Are you trying to drive people away from using your email so you can close or make that a unrealistically expensive paid service as well?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    How do you change the font sizes and where are all the icons like the email we had before....Please get rid of this new mail and let us go back to the old one

  • Gary Skinner commented  ·   ·  Report

    Italic letters are hard to read. They cause eyestrain. They should be reserved for special occasions, to highlight a thought or idea. Using italics for basic text is counter to all common sense in terms of reading. Have you ever read a novel or a newspaper that used italics for the body of the story? The text would ultimately become a blur.

    Upgrading the format of the mail page is fine. But what were you thinking using italics as the standard text? Please yield to plain common sense and replace the italic text on the mail page with simple, easy on the eyes letters.

  • Lee Turner commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have pleaded for you to restore the way my email was. Fonts are gone replaced by small dainty fonts, contact info is deleted, You've made it nearly un-useable. Little rectangles to be filled in with addresses, subject lines and the like. I hate it and everything about it. Still no help or answer from you! Are you trying to run us off?!!!
    I DON"T KNOW HOW TO SIGN IN WITH YAHOO!!!!!!!

  • STEPHEN SENICK commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yahoo has destroyed itself. Classic was perfect. ALL yahoo users are switching provider. Congratulations.

  • Michael Kokoszanek commented  ·   ·  Report

    What a rubbish all that is … new mail doesn't jump in to the list on its own - so I may spend two hours without realising how many new emails I've got in the queue until i click inbox again. Put it back how it was.

  • Widad Basha commented  ·   ·  Report

    I hate that the delete button is now all the way to the right. Put it back where it was next to the message title. When I am skimming through my emails, I have to take my eye off of the titles, go all the way to the right to find the delete button. By then, I end up selecting the wrong email to delete. PUT IT BACK WHERE IT WAS!!!!

  • tolga talav commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fonts are blurry, the classic mail is more clear, easier to the eye and therefore easier to use.

  • Matt G commented  ·   ·  Report

    When I send an e-mail the first thing I do is compose the e-mail. Then I determine who I send the e-mail to. Your site annoys me because I start composing then out of nowhere the insertion bar jump to the "to" or address part. This is ********. Because I am composing in the address.

  • ST commented  ·   ·  Report

    What happened to my layout?
    I have stylish installed and had the interface styled so that I could easily read my email without it bothering my eyes.

    You made this change based on whose request?
    IT CERTAINLY WAS NOT MINE!

    Why do you narcissistic, egotistical, educated idiots insist that you are right and everyone else is wrong?

    Now, I will have to loose a lot of time creating a new stylish layout so that I won't be getting eye strain while reading my email!

    This may actually be in violation of the disabilities act. Maybe I should check into this a file a discrimination law suite against Yahoo.

  • Marta S commented  ·   ·  Report

    Typing text into new reply email was constantly jumping and disappearing from the view. Terrible functionality for this new version. Clearly Yahoo never tested this critical function of email itself.

  • Marjorie Arciniega commented  ·   ·  Report

    Making those ads bigger is the whole reason for the "improvement." It's improved for Yahoo, not for the users.

  • l s commented  ·   ·  Report

    1. my mac running 10.9.5 shows yahoo title bar in shades of light blue. unreadable.
    2. please reorient/move "DELETE" button back to left side and make larger.
    3. please hire a graphic designer who doesn't suffer from color-blind issues and understands that a larger DELETE button will be more visible to users of all ages.
    this design seems to be NON ADA COMPLIANT.

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